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N.C. Children’s Hospital is part of a national, collaborative effort to establish a registry for inflammatory bowel diseases.
The collaborative is part of a $12 million grant from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
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UNC Hospitals is a 803-bed facility that serves more than 37,000 people in the Southeast every year. It houses the N.C. Children’s Hospital as well as the N.C. Women’s Hospital. In addition to that, the hospital offers specialized patient care services such as the Diabetes Care Center, the Rehabilitation Center, the Comprehensive Transplant Center and more. UNC houses the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of 40 National Cancer Institute-designated centers in the United States.

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The construction of a new branch of UNC Hospitals in Hillsborough the state says is needed could fall through due to legal roadblocks.The hospital still has to complete an appeal process started by a wary nearby medical center.Sixty-eight beds would be relocated from UNC Hospitals to the location in Hillsborough, said town of Hillsborough planning director Margaret Hauth.

UNC Hospitals is preparing to care for Haitian patients in the wake of the recent catastrophic earthquake.Hospital officials are still unsure if they will receive patients and how many. But the hospital would be able to take between 25 and 50 patients, said Dalton Sawyer, director of emergency preparedness and continuity planning.